Who Does Cindy Sheehan Hate?
By Michael Reagan
FrontPageMagazine.com | August 26, 2005

Sigmund Freud had a concept he called projection, which has been defined as a defense where the ego deals with unacceptable impulses and/or terrifying anxieties by attributing them to someone in the external world.

In many ways I think that explains the behavior of the medias current patron saint, Cindy Sheehan, whose hate rhetoric aimed at President Bush is really meant for someone else who she cant admit even to herself is her real target. To do so would represent one of those unacceptable impulses Dr. Freud was talking about.

In this case it could well be that Cindy Sheehan is projecting her rage at George Bush when the one she really despises is her late son Casey, who died as a hero in Iraq, precisely because he did die a hero in Iraq.

The more I listen to Cindy Sheehan and consider her past actions and her past words, it occurs to me she has always been a liberal, shes always been anti-military, and shes always been anti-Republican. It appears that she raised Casey in such an environment, yet despite that what does he do? He not only joins the military engaged in a war she bitterly opposes, but to add insult to injury when his enlistment runs out, he re-enlists although he knew that by so doing it meant he would be sent to Iraq where a war his mother despises is being fought.

Think about that. What Casey did was to reject not by words but by deeds his mothers most closely-held beliefs.

Then, to make matter worse in her eyes, this son volunteers to go on a dangerous mission even his superiors warned him against, and dies as a result. Casey Sheehan's sergeant asked for volunteers. Sheehan had just returned from Mass. After Sheehan volunteered once, the sergeant asked Sheehan again if he wanted to go on the mission. According to many reports (and according to his own mother) Casey responded, "Where my chief goes, I go."

He went, and it cost him his life. You can almost hear her saying to his spirit, How dare you spurn me and turn your back on me? How dare you go join the military, and then how dare you volunteer to fight against the innocent Iraqi freedom fighters and get yourself killed?

Casey Sheehans heroic action has embittered Cindy Sheehan. And her actions have embittered her family who bitterly resent her exploitation of her sons heroic death in behalf of her political extremism. Heres what they wrote to Matt Drudge:

The Sheehan Family lost our beloved Casey in the Iraq War and we have been silently, respectfully grieving. We do not agree with the political motivations and publicity tactics of Cindy Sheehan. She now appears to be promoting her own personal agenda and notoriety at the expense of her sons good name and reputation. The rest of the Sheehan Family supports the troops, our country, and our president, silently, with prayer and respect.

Cindy Sheehan says she wants to ask the president, Why did you kill my son? She knows that George Bush did not kill her son. The butchers she supports with her far-out liberal activism killed Casey Sheehan and that activism is now resulting in the deaths of other young Americans because she is giving aid and comfort to our enemies and encouraging them to persist in their terrorism, giving them hope that if her views prevail the U.S. will lose its will and pull out. And so the fight goes on, and more Casey Sheehans die as a result.

And she says of her son, "He died for oil. He died to make your friends," Bushs friends, "richer. He died to expand American imperialism in the Middle East."

How dare he?

Cindy Sheehan doesnt need to talk to the president. A talk with a therapist would be more appropriate.

She explains that she desires an explanation for the "noble cause" that we went to war in Iraq. Every "noble cause" as has been presented thusfar from the administration has been proven false. Is there another more secret "noble cause" that precipitated this otherwise murderous onslaught of HUMANKIND? Cindy wants to know, and so do I.

She explains that she desires an explanation for the "noble cause" that we went to war in Iraq. Every "noble cause" as has been presented thusfar from the administration has been proven false. Is there another more secret "noble cause" that precipitated this otherwise murderous onslaught of HUMANKIND? Cindy wants to know, and so do I.

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But you all just want to brush over that little tid bit, to suit you own purpose... WE ARE OVER THERE, just what do you all want us to do?????? turn with our tails between our leg's and run?????? WTF, is your reasioning for this..Did you not watch 9/11, and the eight yrs with your beloved clinton, when we ducked our tails, and hid......there was the first world trade center bombing, there was the embassy bombings in africa, there was the bali bombings, there was the USS COLE.....What is it you need to KNOW???? To me you people are disgraseful, and a coward, thank god our military are not, and find that they are fighting for a NOBLE CAUSE, to free 50 milliion people, for the women who you all so cherish,(your mother sheheen included,) should have a choice,(remember). so those women don't have to be stoned to death anymore, who have a right to vote, who don't have to wear a burka,who can maybe attend a school and be educated.. For all the honest men over in Iraq and Afganistan who want to just be able to make an honest living, without living in terror. Your all for the freedom of People, as long it's just yourself and you don't have to stick your own neck out..... Except to talk, talk talk bullshit..... To me your just a joke, who say's they care, but do nothing but spew words.. .....your all

She explains that she desires an explanation for the "noble cause" that we went to war in Iraq. Every "noble cause" as has been presented thusfar from the administration has been proven false. Is there another more secret "noble cause" that precipitated this otherwise murderous onslaught of HUMANKIND? Cindy wants to know, and so do I.

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GMAFB. What you want is an explanation put in terms of something, your leftist brain can comprehend. If the explanations given so far don't do it, you just aren't going to get it.

The murderous onslaught against humankind is not being committed by the US. We're just responding to it in kind. You would rather stick your head in the sand and pretend radical Islam isn't there. When they drive a freakin' car bomb up your ass will you get it THEN?

This is a great article. I have increasing felt that Ms. Sheehan's mental health is questionable, and that she needs therapy. Yesterday, I saw a news clip where she said she now knows why GWB "wants Americans to be killed". It's because Americans already have been killed. I kid you not- she really said that. This seems to be even beyond liberal paranoia and slander. She is losing her mind.

This is a great article. I have increasing felt that Ms. Sheehan's mental health is questionable, and that she needs therapy. Yesterday, I saw a news clip where she said she now knows why GWB "wants Americans to be killed". It's because Americans already have been killed. I kid you not- she really said that. This seems to be even beyond liberal paranoia and slander. She is losing her mind.

This is a great article. I have increasing felt that Ms. Sheehan's mental health is questionable, and that she needs therapy. Yesterday, I saw a news clip where she said she now knows why GWB "wants Americans to be killed". It's because Americans already have been killed. I kid you not- she really said that. This seems to be even beyond liberal paranoia and slander. She is losing her mind.

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Excellent article and great commentary. For PB's, dude, you really need to investigate reality along with your opinion.

But you all just want to brush over that little tid bit, to suit you own purpose... WE ARE OVER THERE, just what do you all want us to do?????? turn with our tails between our leg's and run?????? WTF, is your reasioning for this..Did you not watch 9/11, and the eight yrs with your beloved clinton, when we ducked our tails, and hid......there was the first world trade center bombing, there was the embassy bombings in africa, there was the bali bombings, there was the USS COLE.....What is it you need to KNOW???? To me you people are disgraseful, and a coward, thank god our military are not, and find that they are fighting for a NOBLE CAUSE, to free 50 milliion people, for the women who you all so cherish,(your mother sheheen included,) should have a choice,(remember). so those women don't have to be stoned to death anymore, who have a right to vote, who don't have to wear a burka,who can maybe attend a school and be educated.. For all the honest men over in Iraq and Afganistan who want to just be able to make an honest living, without living in terror. Your all for the freedom of People, as long it's just yourself and you don't have to stick your own neck out..... Except to talk, talk talk bullshit..... To me your just a joke, who say's they care, but do nothing but spew words.. .....your all

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Why in the world are you wasting your time? Of course he knows all that. He just doesn't care. Freedom and democracy are not valuable ideals to leftists. Equality is, equality of misery. Thats why they love Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez more than their own president.

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